[Children's & Illustrated] Rhys, Grace. The Banbury Cross Series

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1894-95. In 12 volumes. 16mo. With numerous illustrations, by Sidney H. Heath, Charles Robinson, Alice B. Woodward, R. Anning Bell, H. Granville Fell, Alice M. Mitchell, R. Heighway, Violet M. and Evelyn Holden, and H. Isabel Adams. Publisher's green cloth-covered boards, decorated in gilt, purple silk ties, boards uniformly warped, lightly and unevenly faded; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers by Bell; scattered light toning and spotting; in rare original cloth box, decorated in gilt, with hinged panel, top wanting.

A charming and complete set of this children's library of fairy tales, compiled by Irish writer Grace Rhys (1865-1929). Scarce when complete in all 12 volumes, the set comprises some of the most popular fairy tales ever written, and includes Jack the Giant-Killer and Beauty and the Beast, The History of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, The Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and his Cat (2nd edition, November 1895), Little Red Riding Hood & the History of Tom Thumb, The House that Jack Built & Other Nursery Rhymes, Blue Beard and Puss in Boots, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, Banbury Cross & Other Nursery Rhymes, Fireside Stories, The Fairy Gifts and Tom Hickathrift, Aesop's Fables, The History of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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